"Teach Me How To Dougie" rapper killed in drive-by shooting.

mtv.com- Early Monday (May 16) morning hip-hop fans were stunned by the news that Cali Swag District member M-Bone died Sunday night, the victim of a drive-by shooting.

Bone, born Mante Talbert, was one-fourth of the group that rose to fame with their 2010 single "Teach Me How to Dougie." Cali Swag frontman C-Smoove tweeted, "Ma life changed drastically in the blink of an eye. rip mbone," early Monday morning.
Inglewood Police Department Homicide Sgt. Brian Spencer confirmed to MTV News that the 22-year-old Bone died of two gunshot wounds to the head in his hometown of Inglewood, California.
At about 10:30 p.m. PT Sunday night, police were called to the 400 block of North La Brea in Inglewood. When police arrived on the scene, they found Talbert seated in the driver's seat of a black unspecified vehicle with at least two gunshot wounds to the head. Paramedics then took him to a local hospital where Talbert eventually succumbed to his injuries.
Witness accounts confirm that the rapper was seated in his car when the gunmen pulled alongside him in a separate vehicle and let off at least two rounds. The suspects fled northbound on La Brea.

I know what the "Dougie" dance is but I've never heard of the song or the group. I feel bad for the friends and family of M-Bone, but I'm not really surprised something like this happened. You see, there has been a sad history of dance fad originators meeting untimely and violent deaths. M-Bone is just the latest in a long line of dance fad tragedy.

Remember 1990's "The Humpty Dance"? It was performed by the Digital Underground, which had as one of it's members an up and coming rapper by the name of Tupac Shakur, who, as we all know, was also killed by a drive-by shooting, in 1996. His murder was never solved, but it is rumored that the trigger man was wearing black-framed glasses with a fake nose, and "Humpty Dance" was blasting from the car's sound system.

And then there was one-hit wonder Los del Rio, who's 1996 hit "Macarena" was an international smash hit. Everybody knows the song, but few know what ever became of the duo. Apparently they fell on tough times after their subsequent albums went nowhere, and were forced into becoming drug mules for the Mexican mafia. In 2009, they were captured by a rival cartel while trying to cross the border and were later found dead in the desert, shot full of lead, and left in Macarena related poses.

And who can forget "Hokie Pokie" writer, Al Tabor, who was tragically raped then torn to shreds by a pack of sex-crazed orangutan's while vacationing in Borneo.

So let this be a lesson to all you aspiring dance fad creators out there. An annoying song and dance combo may seem like an easy way to make it big at first, but karma can be a cruel mistress, and in the end, it's probably not worth it.